In this course, we will be using one of the most popular statistical analysis programs: R
Courtesy of this website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., R was the second most popular statistical analysis program used in scholarly articles in 2016.
The long-term trend is for R to become the most popular statistical analysis program.
You can see SPSS was by far the most popular, but its popularity has really decreased. SAS's popularity has also decreased.
10 years from now I expect R to be the most popular stats program among psychologists. That means if you learn it now, you will have a marketable skill going forward. Lots of research laboratories will be looking to start analyzing their data in R and they will want to work with people like you who have experience with it (or you will, starting today!).